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This federated system serves as a replacement for Big Tech's administrative tools - email hosting, cloud storage, document collaboration. More than that: Tech Freedom Coop is also building out its own AI infrastructure, locally hosted and managed. 19/

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Groups like HRDAG have decades of experience using cutting edge statistical techniques to uncover and reveal the extent of crimes committed during civil wars, hot wars, genocides and secret wars. 20/

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They built the largest human rights database ever created, to track every death in the Colombian Civil War and estimate the likelihood that each killing was carried out by a CIA-backed militia, FARC guerrillas, or the Colombian military: hrdag.org/colombia/ 21/

HRDAG - Human Rights Data Analysis GroupData integration and statistical estimation: A collaboration with the Colombian Truth Commission (CEV) and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed...hrdag.org
Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

They conducted the first census of killing by US police: hrdag.org/poli/ They partnered with Innocence Project New Orleans to sift through mountains of arrest reports to surface cases similar to successful exonerations, helping more innocents to win their freedom: hrdag.org/2025/02/20/i... 22/

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Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

Today, they're active across the US, tracking and analyzing crimes committed by the Trump regime: hrdag.org/2026/07/05/n... And they are working in Gaza, to document the genocide so that someday, the truth can be acknowledged and the perpetrators brought to justice: hrdag.org/pressroom/ny... 23/

Naming Police Officers Who Kill in CaliforniaNew Functionality in the Police Records Access Project Highlights the Names of Individual Police Officers Oakland resident Erik Salgado was 23 years old when he was stopped by the California Highway P...hrdag.org
Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

I've known Patrick Ball, the statistician and programmer who founded HRDAG, for more than 20 years, and every time we meet, I learn something from him. He's the person who comes to mind whenever people tell me that AI is useless and that programmers who claim otherwise are deluded. 24/

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

Patrick is one of the best programmers I know, he is the very best statistician I know, and he's found many, many ways to use coding assistants to help him perform massive data-analysis projects that are vital to human rights struggles. 25/

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

He's a "centaur" if ever there was one: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... It's exciting to see Patrick and his colleagues and collaborators taking these decisive steps to begin building the post-American internet and a kind of post-bubble AI. 26/

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

It's treating AI tools are treated as normal technologies, capable of helping skilled practitioners who have discernment born of experience to apply them wisely to achieve important things: pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/h... 27/

Pluralistic: Discernment (28 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

For more than 20 years, HRDAG has been impressing me with the things we can do using advanced statistical analysis. The current generation of AI tools are founded in advanced stats, too. No one should think that advanced stats can solve all your problems of course. 28/

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

The AI bubble is madness and will lead to ruin - environmental, economic, political: pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/t... The world would be a better place without the AI bubble. But AI? It's fine. 29/

Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn’t like the internet bubble (26 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

It's another form of statistical analysis and inference. There's no reason to use all the planet's energy, computing and water to perform that analysis, but the correct and desirable amount of useful AI-style computation is nowhere near zero. 30/

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

This is the type of work that civil rights lawyers really need when investigating a police department. Very hard to prove Monell violations, ie widespread violence so tolerated it's custom & de facto policy. Extraordinary data review to get to that point, especially tough for a small firm.